YORUBA TRADO – MEDICS TAKEOVER IMO STATE.

Primary healthcare services delivery is an issue of serious concern in Nigeria and Africa at large. Poverty has been found to be one of the major factors responsible for various dangerous diseases and sicknesses that ravage human race especially the poorer and underdeveloped nations of this world. It is most worrisome that the scourge of several diseases assume insuperable dimension on daily basis that the pace of scientific and medical technological research so far seem not to be sufficient to stem down the tide of existing and new diseases that abound.
So, mankind is confronted with several incidences and affliction by these life shortening epidemic breakouts that available research and development capacity cannot contain. For this reason, orthodox medicine alone does not provide sufficient answer to the upsurge of primary healthcare needs of the teeming population particularly among the poor nations. To this end, alternative medicine is exploited as a veritable aspect of general Medicare to complement the effort. Nevertheless, research and development recently proved the efficacy of alternative medicine as an acceptable and somewhat reliable concept. Therefore, the question is no longer whether traditional (alternative) medicine is good and reliable rather the check in the process of its administration and the sustainability of the media of the practical knowledge transfer or impartation. The academia are challenged so much with the handling of the knowledge and skill impaction or transfer of the professional knowledge of the much needed alternative medicine, such that a conventional standard will be created to streamline or harmonize the operation of diverse practitioners globally. So far a lot of progress was recorded in less than proportionately few compared to the increasing number of uneducated, not-lettered, and untrained people entering into the practice especially for pecuniary advantage other than humanitarian purposes. Unarguably, there may be talented and gifted people into this trade or business of alternative medical services delivery but the influx experienced recently across the globe of people who take to the activities involving herbalism, trado-therapy, trado-pharmacy, occultism, etcetera is uncontrollably worrisome. For example, the Chinese acupuncture provides a typical success and remarkable milestone in scientific development of alternative medicines as a complement to orthodox medicine. Also, India and many other Asian and African Professionals have excelled in the field of alternative medicine given the degree of it’s acceptance and proven efficacy. The unrestrained, uncontrollable and non harmonized entry into the traditional medicine practicing poses a challenge to the process of integrating alternative medicine as an adequate healthcare services delivery outlet. In its entirety, alternative medicare as a supplementary to orthodox or conventional medicare is not a bad idea. It is the actual regulation and control of its administration process that poses a lot of danger to the society. The uncertainty of dosage and prescription is one of the many short comings.
Hence, this article takes a look at the alarming rate of influx of actors in this sector vis-a-viz the social implication with particular emphasis on Imo State. In the recent times, groups and members of Nigerians engaged in this business of traditional medicine troop into Owerri Municipality in their hordes for what was taken to be trado-medical trade fair to show case vagaries of diverse acts of alternative medication. The heartland state capital of Owerri within a space of short period of about two (2) or less years witnessed a tempo-raging phases of trado-medicine trade fairs some of which dragged on to the point of monotony. The psyches and emotions of the good people of Imo were overcharged with the cacophony of inordinate sounds, voices and jingles of high-pitched notes of persuasive audio as well as visual adverts buzzing and filtering out of Imo State owned radio and television stations. Wherever you are within Imo State, once tuned to IBC or orient FM Radio even Radio Nigeria Heartland FM, Owerri and television, campaigns, conversion and persuasion-ridden voices advertise one traditional herbal concoction or the other as panacea for uncountable ailments, diseases, afflictions, sicknesses of sorts. The strange thing out it all is that every one that featured any sample of these concoctions claim that own preparation is multi-cu e for a litany of endemic and pandemic diseases without definition. It is incredible that a particular combination or mixture of herbs which often come in forms of syrups, tables, capsules, powder and suspensions will cure countless sicknesses, illnesses, afflictions or diseases. Most wonderful aspect is the audacity and impunity with which these individuals boisterously claim excellence in the field to the extent of mesmerizing the helpless gullible multitude of audience gained through unrestrained campaigns (via the mass media). One wonders if there is any legislation or institutional framework extant to ensure proper regulation and control of the activities of these groups. Of great concern is the discernible fact that the city of Owerri and the entire landscape of Imo State presents the most conducive atmosphere where this lucrative trade flourishes unabated. The mass media, especially the electronic component are making heydays out of the uncontrolled activities of these business Moguls who are able and willing to pay what it takes to occupy the greater part of Imo State owned radio and television A greater percentage of the actors in this brisk business are from Yoruba tribe of Nigeria. The Yoruba indigenes who abinitio are reluctant to migrate to settle within the country (outside their immediate enclaves) at least not so disposed to doing so as much as their counterpart of Hausa or Igbo extraction. This is not denying the fact that the Yorubas are equally itinerant but most of their voyages target overseas even over and above their counterpart of Igbo or Hausa tribes. Nowadays, Owerri and Igbo land in general have been besieged by an army of crusaders of mostly Yorubas engaged in the fast growing brisk business of either in the cloak of motivational councilors or alternative medical personnel. It’s either you are bored with adverts of mysterious skills of money-raking tricks like FOREX trading, oil and gas trading, call card printing and software seminar in product export trading knowledge impaction with minimal capital outlay promised or confronted with the invention of newly concorted alternative medicine with omnipotent healing and curative strength. Much as I don’t blame the electronic media’s indulgence in promoting this syndrome of money making craze and its sister omnipotent traditional medical wizards because they who need to stay in business and pay their bills out of the money paid by these group of individuals, it is still perceived by many that promoting such businesses ought be with some modicum of restraints to safe the gullible helpless poor illiterates the risk of running into the hands of cheaps swindlers. This is not asserting that all those patronizing the Imo State Broadcasting Corporation IBC and orient FM radio and television stations are fraudulent. Truly, some of the marketers of these products may be real for some that have proven efficacies and acceptability not in doubt. But, the media should help matters by assisting the public to checkmate the excesses of the group by avoiding every Dick, Tom and Harry who can afford airtime from having access to cajole the masses with the jargon of marketing dangerous and half-baked products of questionable quality or standard.
It is not equally out of point to suspect that some of these products advertised vigorously through our media may be constituting health hazard. Given the low ebb of literacy in our contemporary society, the gullibility of the poor and helpless public is being taken advantage of to infiltrate the health sector with lethal and deleterious concoctions launched into the system on daily basis especially when promoted by the media which remain the only credible avenue of information dissemination. The presence of these group is even overwhelming the curious helpless poor masses who are toadied to resort to trado-medicines as lee ways out of acute dearth of primary healthcare services delivery. Something needs to be done decisively to checkmate the activities of traditional medicines practitioners to safe this state the ensuing embarrassment imminent in the unregulated activities of the operators. The helpless poor masses are exposed to undue rip-off when cajoled into patronizing the products being marketed through the media and public address systems without checks and balances. Owerri residents and indigenes of Imo State are bored with trade promotions and adverts rendered in uncultured and vulgar languages adopted by these numerous operators, with funny business names of different types that leaves not much to be desired. If you tune in the radio or television station in Imo State, the air is fraught with buzzing noise of uncivil adverts and jingles coined in Languages bereft of courtesy all in the name traditional medicine promotions.
The list of them heard in one day c5uId send one’s mind. bugling, and most of them are of Yoruba land’s origin as if Imo State in general and Owerri particularly have become the commercial hob of traditional medical products. This is calling on the appropriate authorities in Imo State to intervene to checkmate the activities of these groups to ensure a deserving sanity in the health sectors. From reports reaching from the federal medical Center Owerri, cases of health complications encountered are not unconnected with self medication indulgence bandwagon associated with the unbridled patronage of loose trado-medical products promoted via the mass media. If it is not Yenkem or the Abeokuta woman, it’s Mr. Water or Dr. Winner, Chief Ola Balogun, Mama lyabo’s product all claiming omnipotence. On the other hand, the motivational speakers tingle our ears with mouth watering promises in our radios capitalizing on people’s greed, avarice, gullibility, poverty, joblessness, unemployment and all that to project doubtful quick-money-,making ICT-powered business ideas imbued with copious risk and uncertainties but hinged only on the key slogan of making much with little, the dream business ideals. This article does not undermined the economic importance of the overall business activities championed, perpetrated and perpetuated by Yorubas who settle in Imo State or Owerri, it is advocating a streamlined approach buttressed by moderation as the cardinal rule of life. It is a call to reasoning for Ndi -Igbo to shine eyes and stop falling mugu.

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Consume that shitty stuff at your own risk. It contains pounded human head



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We grind human heads to make powder for ladies in search of husbands- Native doctor
A native doctor and suspected ritual killer arrested by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Lagos State Police Command has said that he grinds human heads into powder as charm for ladies who are looking for choice husbands and big contracts. Olasunkanmi Owolabi, a 43-year-old native of Oyo town, said the concoction is also used as cure for stubborn sores, mental illness, sickle cell anaemia and epilepsy. He also said had planned to establish a specialist native hospital if government gave him the approval.
Arrested with Owolabi were his two co-travellers, Clement Omodijie and Usman Saliu a.k.a. Alfa. Omodijie, a 54-year-old indigene of Ekpoma, Edo State, says he is married with three children. A grave digger at Gbogbo Cemetery, Ikorodu, Lagos on a monthly salary of N22,000, he said he had worked at the cemetery for five years before he was arrested by SARS operatives.
Saliu, a 31-year-old native doctor from Ilisa town in Osun State and Owolabi’s ally, said he trained as an alfa (Islamic cleric) at Ralwu Islamic School, Ikewu, Osun State where he claimed he spent nine years learning native medicine. A police source said the three had been charged with unlawful possession of human parts.
Owolabi (43), who was arrested on June 22 this year, was said to have requested a human head from Omodijie, saying that he needed the skull to prepare a medicine for his patients. Omodijie obliged Owolabi by exhuming a corpse from one of the graves in the cemetery where he worked and delivering the head to Owolabi.
Upon a tip-off from a member of the public, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko, was said to have directed the officer in charge of SARS, Abba Kyari, a Superintendent of Police, to fish out the ritual killers.
Kyari immediately swung into action with his team. He put a call through to Saliu, saying that a human head was urgently needed to save the life of a wealthy patient whose illness had defied orthodox medicine. Saliu asked the detectives to come to Ikorodu for the transaction. But he was arrested as soon as he showed up at the agreed place. The human head he came with was recovered and put in a polythene bag as an exhibit.
confessing his role in the saga omodijie said, “i was content with being a grave digger before i met owolabi in a restaurant in front of the cemetery in gbogbo area of ikorodu. since i met owolabi, my life has not been the same again. I have moved from one problem into another. i was enjoying my n15,000 monthly salary as a grave digger before i met him and he lured me into supplying human heads to him at n4,000 each. “The naked truth is that there is nothing reasonable i have done with the n4,000 per human head that he has been paying me. i used it to drink gin or smoke cigarettes with it. it is the devil’s money. “i hardly fell sick since i was born. but after selling human heads to him, my health has been deteriorating.
I buy drugs as if it is food, making me to spend more money than before. “i was moulding blocks before i secured a job in the cemetery as a grave digger. we were paid on a daily basis. we used wooden or machine moulder. but whichever moulder we used, we charged the owner n500 per bag of cement, which can give one about 40 blocks. if we did three bags, we collected n1,500. “when i got a job in the cemetery, i was happy because it is not as hard as moulding blocks.
The salary was small but i was enjoying it. the grave was shallow or deep, depending on the owner of the corpse and the way he or she wants it to be buried. “my trouble started a day i went to buy food opposite the cemetery. that was where i met owolabi and he said there was something he had wanted to tell me. He asked whether i was a worker in the cemetery and i said yes. he said i should give him a human head and i asked him what he meant. he said the head of a corpse already buried. “we have cemetery rules which forbid us from doing such a thing. i told him that i would not be able to do that, and he left. but thereafter, each day i went to the restaurant to buy food, he would accost me with the same request. i insisted that i would not do it because i did not want to lose my job, but he said it was better to sell human parts to him than allowing them to waste. “I summoned courage to ask him what he wanted to do with human heads and other parts. he said he was a native doctor and alfa, and that he wanted to use it to make medicine.
He said he would grind it into powder and mix it with certain herbs for pregnant women to drink in order to deliver their babies without complications or operation. he also said that he grinds human heads and mixes them with the powders some ladies carry in their handbags, saying that it helps those that are looking for choice husbands and big government contracts or companies’ lpos to secure them without stress. he also said that it can cure sickle cell anemia, among other ailments. “I told him that i didn’t have any but if i got one, i would call him.
A few days later, i called him on the phone and told him that i had got some. he asked me where i kept it and i told him that i kept one in a nearby bush. he asked me to bring it to my house so that he would come later to collect it. “he knows my house because he had followed me to my house several times after we met and became friends. he gave me n4,000 for the first head he came to collect from my house. the following day, he bought another one for n4,000.” asked how he obtained the heads he sold to owolabi, omodijie said: “The graves where i normally bring out the skulls from are shallow, and coffins are not used for the corpses brought there because of religion or financial status of the owners. it is cheaper to bury a corpse in a shallow grave than to do so in a deep, cemented or marbled one. “most burials done in shallow graves are temporary. that is why that section of the cemetery is called the temporary site. after some months, the corpses buried in shallow graves are excavated and burnt. that was why owolabi i should not allow the skulls to waste and that i should sell them to him instead.” “four of us work in the cemetery, but the other workers did not know that i was smuggling out human skulls and other parts to sell to native doctors. it was only two heads i had sold before detectives from sars arrested me. “there is no useful thing i can say i did with the money.
I was deceived by the devil. i am pleading for forgiveness because i did not kill a l anyone to sell their heads. i sold the skulls of corpses already buried and had decayed. i did not know that it would land me in this trouble.” owolabi on his part said: “i am an alfa and a native doctor. but i am not yet registered. i finished my arabic studies in kwara state about 13 years ago and relocated to ikorodu to work as a native doctor. i have the ambition of building a native hospital if the government gives me an approval. “I started by praying for sick people. last year, i met this cemetery worker (omodijie) and told him about the products (human parts) they were wasting. i learnt about using human skull to do powerful charms and medicine after travelling to kano, kaduna and other parts of the north. “in kano, i met a yoruba native doctor who told me that if i mixed ground human bones with soap and some herbs, it would bring luck for my clients or patients.
He said it could also cure chronic and stubborn sores and help pregnant women to deliver without complications or operation. it can also cure madness and other terrible diseases that defy orthodox solution. “women who are looking for husbands can also mix the ground bones with their powder. when they see a man they like, especially if they want a husband, they would rob the powder and talk to the man and the man will fall for them. it can also bring good luck and help job seekers to secure employment. “it can make somebody to become rich. it can cure epilepsy. a woman can also bath with it and men will be begging her to marry them. i sell a tablet of the soap for n2,000. it depends on the pocket of the buyer. some buy it for n1,000. I sell it around ikorodu and ajah in lagos. “saliu had told me to help him to get a human head and i collected one for him from the cemetery worker. he gave me n4,000 and i gave it to the cemetery worker that supplied the products. “when sars operatives arrested him, he led them to my house and i was also arrested. i knew the grave digger to be a worker in gbogbo cemetery at ikorodu. when he wanted to throw away some (human) parts, i told him that i needed them. i normally gave him n4,000 per skull.” saliu said: “i am a native doctor. i also spent nine years in ralwu islamic school, ikewu, osun state. i pray for women who are looking for husbands. i collected whatever amount they gave me. when the prayer worked for them, they would come to thank me with anything they liked. “i usually lock myself up to pray for my clients for between seven and 21 days, depending on the personality involved. they paid whatever amount they liked.
The only money they were required to deposit with me was the one to buy certain things that i would use to prepare the things i would use for the prayers.” asked why he had to use human skulls for his prayers, he said: “i had not used it before. one of my brothers came and met me in the house one day and told me that he went to ila-orangun in osun state to do rituals for money but the person he met told him that it would require a human skull and certain leaves. “when i met my brother, owolabi, we talked about how to get the human head. he told me that he himself used to do the same medicine with human heads and some herbs and even made medicinal soap with it. he asked me to go and bring money and he would help me get a human skull. “i asked owolabi where he would get it from and he said he had a link at the gbogbo cemetery in ikorodu. after six to seven months, my brother called me while i was still in bed and asked whether the human head was ready. i told him to let me ask owolabi about it. when i asked owolabi, he told me to come and meet him. when i met him, he said it would cost n18,000, saying that he bought it for n12,000 from the cemetery man. “a friend of shina came and gave him n15,000. owolabi took n10,000 and gave me n2,000 only, and told me that he would use the remaining n3,000 to pay for the transportation of the human head to the final destination.

Chai, Yoruba and empty chest beating!

Lol

@ OP did you skip classess in high school when your English teacher taught ''Summary''

We grind human heads to
make powder for ladies in
search of husbands- Native
doctor
Hope they are not those Osun touts sent by Aregbesola during Anambra election

the OP seemed pained by the success these yorubas have acheived in the so-called smart peoples land

INNOisBACK: @ OP did you skip classess in high school when your English teacher taught ''Summary''

O boy help me ask o... The guy for put "warning... Long post" for the title so that we go dey aware...

Let me teach you summary cos it like someone didnt do his/her job well
1. What are you trying to say
2. What is the subject matter of this essay
3. Where did u copy this epistle from

But like seriously, Yorubas here are into aluminiun fabrication, tailoring and the parks. Note that tlhey don't dominate anyway .I see far more Hausas here than Yorubas, why? That we have Americans, Europeans, Chinese in Nigeria doesn't mean we are better. for Those clamouring that the SW is the best and Why Igbos move to to the SW., people move for opportunities just like foreigners come here.Repping onitsha wella

AKINEGBA NA BASTARD!!!

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha,this op is funny

Read Only Mode (ROM) activated!!!

erm,,, ok

op e be like say You wan Spoil Market for them, anyway I'm in owerri, we're enlightened Enough to Know what is good or bad for us.

Demand and supply. Guess so many people out there buy their products.

django1: Demand and supply. Guess so many people out there buy their products.

They are patronised by fellow Yorubas and their Hausa cousins / masters.

collynzov5:
They are patronised by fellow Yorubas and their Hausa cousins / masters.

amadioha rip open your stomach wall with 300000 kilojoules of thunder. outside the Yoruba herbal practitioners and churches, no other venture advertise on radio station in alaigbo. humour me more loser, fvckhead Igbo sell herbal mixtures too, but your folks are legendary for fakes. Dr ifenyichukwu on upper iweka and numerous other low lifers that display one single leaf and claims it heals all ailment, with pictures of peeps with swollen genitals.

collynzov5:
They are patronised by fellow Yorubas and their Hausa cousins / masters.

How many Yoruba people are in imo state?

django1:

How many Yoruba people are in imo state?

Enough to consume the poisonous herbal concortions produced by their brothers.
All the inter-state motor parks there are dominated by Yorubas (as usual)

anago90:

amadioha rip open your stomach wall with 300000 kilojoules of thunder. outside the Yoruba herbal practitioners and churches, no other venture advertise on radio station in alaigbo. humour me more loser, fvckhead Igbo sell herbal mixtures too, but your folks are legendary for fakes. Dr ifenyichukwu on upper iweka and numerous other low lifers that display one single leaf and claims it heals all ailment, with pictures of peeps with swollen genitals.

What has advertising on radio got to do with anything?
Do bus and Siena drivers advertise on radios too?

collynzov5:
What has advertising on radio got to do with anything?
Do bus and Siena drivers advertise on radios too?

who cares plonker.... without the Yoruba herbal guys radio stations in alaigbo will be in perpetual lock down.

collynzov5:
Enough to consume the poisonous herbal concortions produced by their brothers.
All the inter-state motor parks there are dominated by Yorubas (as usual)

OK.

I don't even know why on earth we yoruba can't allow indigenisattion policy to take place...I'm so so angry rght now as am typing these piece..how can a company in yorubaland dat has a workforce of more thanb 50 be having more igbos dan d main indigenes.. Dangote where I work a lot of pple are worried hw come here in yoruba land we ave more igbo doing all our job for us..dem go pack broda aunty great papa all dem dem come occupy all our positions...I use dis medium to sensitize my pple to dis grave danger and injustice to my pple..if I were to b a govenor or a leader in dis person country called niger.. I will promote a policy of indigenisation.. I will seriously promote it nd vie for it. Just dat our useless yoruba pple too won't just support u. We re legendary to be cowards nd timid pple..dis I knw dat d igbos re using to full effect. I just hope nd pray we yorubas can fiercely nd deadly defend our homeland b4 dis pple erode our essence...

lowgeorge: I don't even know why on earth we yoruba can't allow indigenisattion policy to take place...I'm so so angry rght now as am typing these piece..how can a company in yorubaland dat has a workforce of more thanb 50 be having more igbos dan d main indigenes.. Dangote where I work a lot of pple are worried hw come here in yoruba land we ave more igbo doing all our job for us..dem go pack broda aunty great papa all dem dem come occupy all our positions...I use dis medium to sensitize my pple to dis grave danger and injustice to my pple..if I were to b a govenor or a leader in dis person country called niger.. I will promote a policy of indigenisation.. I will seriously promote it nd vie for it. Just dat our useless yoruba pple too won't just support u. We re legendary to be cowards nd timid pple..dis I knw dat d igbos re using to full effect. I just hope nd pray we yorubas can fiercely nd deadly defend our homeland b4 dis pple erode our essence...

it just means they are better skilled or more ambitious.

Same reason why yorubas are in imo doing herbal medicine.

Unemadu:

it just means they are better skilled or more ambitious.

Same reason why yorubas are in imo doing herbal medicine.

You do realise that poster is one of your ibo friends right? Keep decieving yourselves.

I don't get it....why will an Igbo man create a name on NL using Yoruba names-AkinEgba is an Igbo man.

Why cant he create a name using his Igbo name.

lowgeorge: I don't even know why on earth we yoruba can't allow indigenisattion policy to take place...I'm so so angry rght now as am typing these piece..how can a company in yorubaland dat has a workforce of more thanb 50 be having more igbos dan d main indigenes.. Dangote where I work a lot of pple are worried hw come here in yoruba land we ave more igbo doing all our job for us..dem go pack broda aunty great papa all dem dem come occupy all our positions...I use dis medium to sensitize my pple to dis grave danger and injustice to my pple..if I were to b a govenor or a leader in dis person country called niger.. I will promote a policy of indigenisation.. I will seriously promote it nd vie for it. Just dat our useless yoruba pple too won't just support u. We re legendary to be cowards nd timid pple..dis I knw dat d igbos re using to full effect. I just hope nd pray we yorubas can fiercely nd deadly defend our homeland b4 dis pple erode our essence...

Another Igbo man claiming Yoruba..............

collynzov5:
They are patronised by fellow Yorubas and their Hausa cousins / masters.

By now you should be tried of this tribal fight.....

INNOisBACK: @ OP did you skip classess in high school when your English teacher taught ''Summary''

django1:

You do realise that poster is one of your ibo friends right? Keep decieving yourselves.

Lol i didn't know that.